Jeffrey N. Strauss is a Managing Director in the FTI Real Estate Solutions practice and is based in Roseland, New Jersey. Mr. Strauss directs the firm’s lease consulting services and specializes in providing clients with expert lease knowledge for various business situations. Specific services include lease audits for tenants and landlords, acquisition due diligence, lease abstracting and REIT lease compliance projects, preparation of operating expense reconciliations and litigation support for lease audit disputes.

Mr. Strauss has over 20 years of experience in financial services and accounting with the last thirteen years focusing on real estate and lease analysis.

Mr. Strauss has audited, analyzed and managed the audits of thousands of leases with significant recoveries and has participated in the resulting settlement negotiations for most of these audits. He has played a significant role in designing and developing the resources and analytical techniques utilized by the team in their lease consulting engagements. He has provided litigation support regarding the interpretation of leases and has been part of a team of individuals who provide due diligence services to the real estate community.

Prior to joining FTI Consulting, Mr. Strauss was the VP of Operations with Three M’s Corp which owned and operated a number of restaurants and hotels. Prior to that, he was a senior associate with Alfred Sperber & Co., which is currently part of MR Weiser & Co., where he began his career.

Mr. Strauss has authored numerous articles regarding leases which have appeared in Real Estate New Jersey and Commercial Investment Real Estate. Topics of his articles have included “Formulating Lease Audits” and “Lease Audits Can Help Landlords Recapture Expenses”.

Mr. Strauss holds a B.A. in business administration from the State University of New York. He is a Certified Public Accountant in New York and New Jersey as well as a Certified Financial Planner. He is a member of The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, The New York and New Jersey State Societies of CPA’s, The Financial Planning Association (FPA), National Retail Tenant Association (NRTA), and the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC).